Sunday, December 14, 2025
God’s Gospel Glorified Among Gentiles
Acts 14
Purpose: to embrace that advancing the gospel will succeed, will bring persecution, and will glorify Jesus Christ!
- Ingathering at Iconium (Acts 14:1-7)
Large number of Jews and Gentiles believed in the Lord (v. 1)
Jews again stir up opposition to Paul and Barnabas (v. 2)
Bold proclamation of the gospel (vv. 1, 3, 7)
God granted testifying signs (v. 3)
The people choose sides (v. 4)
Threat of capital punishment (v. 5)
The missionaries move on (vv. 6-7)
- The Lame Leaped in Lystra (Acts 14:8-20a)
Healing of a lame man (vv. 8-10)
Barnabas falsely called Zeus; Paul falsely called Hermes (vv. 11-13)
Paul preaches the gospel and the Creator to Gentile crowd (vv. 14-17)
The crowds fail to respond correctly (v. 18)
Jews from Antioch and Iconium stir up opposition (v. 19)
Paul is stoned and left for dead (v. 19)
The missionaries move on (v. 20)
- Declaration in Derbe (Acts 14:20-21)
Paul and Barnabas preach the gospel and make many disciples
- Account at Antioch (Acts 14:21-28)
Back through Lystra, Iconium, and Pisidian Antioch (v. 21)
Strengthened the disciples and appointed elders in every church (v. 22)
Through Pamphylia with stops at Perga and Attalia (v. 25)
Back in Syrian Antioch (vv. 26)
Accounted to their sending church all that God had done (v. 27, see Acts 13:1-3)
Accounted how the Lord opened a door of faith to the Gentiles (v. 27)
They spent a long time with the disciples in Syrian Antioch! (v. 28)
Advancing the gospel will succeed, will bring persecution, and will glorify Jesus Christ!
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